Joan Schwartz
Joan Schwartz is a graduate of Rutgers University and received an M.A. from the University of Chicago. She has worked as an editor for the University of Chicago Press, Columbia University Press, Macmillan Publishing Company, and The Free Press. ... [... more]
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Time of Silence (20th Century Continental Fiction)
 No Title: ...so thst I may become dried tunny fish in the good Castilian air,where thoughts of a future were lost three and a half centuries ago,and the future is now nothing more than the prospect of decay,an oxhide spread out to dry with the mummifying [... more]
$28.50
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Hollywood's Censor: Joseph I. Breen and the Production ...
The Inescapable Code: According to _Liberty_ magazine in 1936, Joseph Ignatius Breen probably had "more influence in standardizing world thinking than Mussolini, Hitler or Stalin." Joseph who? Breen's name is lost to history. People who know [... more]
$29.50
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Religion in America Since 1945: A History (Columbia ...
From Columbia University Press:: Of late, religion seems to be everywhere, suffusing United States politics and popular culture and acting as both a unifying and a divisive force. This collection of manifestos, Supreme Court decisions, congressional [... more]
$28.00
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A Sacred Thread
editor?: I find it very interesting that a person who manages to edit a work such as this receives as much credit as Mr. Williams does. I am actually dumbfounded and flabbergasted by the amount of errors that actually make reading these 13 essays a [... more]
$32.00
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Religion in America Since 1945
From Columbia University Press:: Of late, religion seems to be everywhere, suffusing United States politics and popular culture and acting as both a unifying and a divisive force. This collection of manifestos, Supreme Court decisions, congressional [... more]
$75.00
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The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
A gem for the enthusiast's collection.: THE COMPLETE WORKS OF CHUANG TZU. Translated by Burton Watson. 397 pp. New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1968 and reprinted. Anyone who may be coming to Chuang Tzu for the first time is in for a treat. [... more]
$87.50
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The Fire: The Bombing of Germany, 1940-1945
Disappointing: Sebald's essay on German literature about WW2 in the volume Campo Santo reminded me of this book, which I read a few months ago. It was a huge success in Germany, and, unfortunately, one suspects at least partly for the wrong reason. The [... more]
$36.00
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Raising Reds
Raising Reds, by Paul Mishler: The emphasis in this book is not as much a discussion of the various summmer camps run by left-wing organizations, but how their various political differences were expressed in their philosophy about raising children, [... more]
$27.00
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Nancy Cunard: Heiress, Muse, Political Idealist
Henry Crowder and Nancy Cunard: Regrettably, this biography is seriously flawed, frankly a disgrace, in respect of Henry Crowder and throughout. There is hardly a page in the book without demonstrable error of fact, misrepresentation, unfounded [... more]
$32.95
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Classical Chinese Literature
Well worth: John Minford, one of our finer Sino-Anglo translators, here brings out a remarkably successful anthology of Chinese literature which stands together with the Norton's as a must-buy for lovers of Chinese literature. The book gives a [... more]
$46.50
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The Church Confronts Modernity: Catholic Intellectuals ...
Superb examination of a bygone era in American Catholicism: Woods' book is an amazing display of erudition and insight in less than 200 pages. For too long, postconciliar Catholics have been led to believe that the pre-Vatican II Catholic Church in [... more]
$24.00
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